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The World Environment News is a daily environmental update bringing you all the latest
environmental stories, pictures and video from across the globe,
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Date:31-Mar-15Country: BELGIUMAuthor: Barbara Lewis Rich nations provided around five times as much in export subsidies for fossil-fuel technology as for renewable energy over a decade, according to OECD data seen by Reuters.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: CANADAAuthor: David Ljunggren Royal Dutch Shell will resume drilling off Alaska after suspending operations for two years in the wake of an accident, the special U.S. envoy to the Arctic said on Monday, but gave no details as to when.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: CHINAAuthor: Ben Blanchard Chinese authorities have closed 66 golf courses in a renewed crackdown on courses built in contravention of rules designed to protect arable land and save water, China's top economic planning body said on Monday.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: CAMEROONAuthor: Ntungwe Ngalame For over 15 years, Raoul Meno has been fishing the waters off the coastal town of Kribi in southern Cameroon. He has sometimes had to face down storms and high seas to bring home a catch to support his family. But now, he is scared.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Alister Doyle and Valerie Volcovici The United States will submit plans for slowing global warming to the United Nations early this week but most governments will miss an informal March 31 deadline, complicating work on a global climate deal due in December.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Carey Gillam An environmental activist group has filed a legal petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeking new rules that would enhance job protection for government scientists whose research questions the safety of farm chemicals.

Date:31-Mar-15Country: THAILANDAuthor: Alisa Tang The world's vegetation has expanded, adding nearly 4 billion tonnes of carbon to plants above ground in the decade since 2003, thanks to tree-planting in China, forest regrowth in former Soviet states and more lush savannas due to higher rainfall.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: CHILEAuthor: Rosalba O'Brien The heavy rainfall that battered Chile's usually arid north this week happened because of climate change, a senior meteorologist said, as the region gradually returns to normal after rivers broke banks and villages were cut off.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Shelby Sebens Oregon ranchers have reached a deal with the federal government aimed at conserving the greater sage grouse and its habitat while ensuring landowners won't face more restrictions if the bird is listed under the Endangered Species Act, officials said on Friday.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Valerie Volcovici Mexico on Friday said it will cap its greenhouse gas emissions by 2026, becoming one of the first countries to formally submit its national climate plan to the United Nations ahead of a climate summit in Paris in December.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Rich McKay Solar electric power would become far more accessible to Georgia homeowners under a bill approved by state lawmakers on Friday, making it easier to lease solar equipment and then sell the power generated back to electric companies.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Sharon Bernstein The brown haze over California's San Joaquin Valley breadbasket on some winter days has been an unwelcome reminder of the bad old days, when pollution hung so thickly that people were warned to stay inside.

Date:30-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Robin Respaut California Governor Jerry Brown signed emergency legislation on Friday that fast-tracks over $1 billion in funding for drought relief and water infrastructure within the parched state.

Date:27-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Will Dunham Satellite data from 1994 to 2012 reveals an accelerating decline in Antarctica's massive floating ice shelves, with some shrinking 18 percent, in a development that could hasten the rise in global sea levels, scientists say.

Date:27-Mar-15Country: TEXASAuthor: Jon Herskovitz A hunter who paid $350,000 last year at a Dallas auction for a license to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia will be able to bring home a trophy despite protests from animal rights groups that said the sale was immoral.

Date:27-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Heide Brandes About 15,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma and Arkansas were without power on Thursday after tornadoes touched down in the states a day earlier, leaving at least one person dead and scores of structures damaged.

Date:27-Mar-15Country: GERMANYAuthor: Vera Eckert EU regulators have referred Germany to the EU Court of Justice over a failure to look into alternative cooling processes at a coal-fired plant in Hamburg, operated by Vattenfall in order to protect wildlife, the European Commission said.

Date:27-Mar-15Country: JAPANAuthor: Megan Rowling Even before a tsunami swamped fields east of the Japanese city of Sendai in March 2011, Chikako Sasaki and her husband, a rice farmer, had dreamed of starting a business selling food made from their own produce.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: HUNGARY/BELGIUMAuthor: Krisztina Than in Budapest and Barbara Lewis in Brussels Talks are taking place between Hungary and the European Union's Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) to try to settle differences over a plan for Russia to supply nuclear fuel to the Paks power plant, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Laura Zuckerman U.S. wildlife managers on Tuesday sought further public comment on whether to reclassify woodland caribou that have all but disappeared from their natural range in the lower 48 states as threatened, a downgrade from their current status of endangered.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Jon Herskovitz in Austin and Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City A storm system produced at least three tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, downing power lines and causing damage to structures, officials said.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Barbara Liston Two of the most destructive termites species in the world are mating in South Florida, producing hybrid colonies that are growing at twice the normal rate of other termites, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Laila Kearney An eaglet hatched in the Pennsylvania wild was seen for the first time on Wednesday by thousands who watched live footage of the fuzzy fledgling from a camera monitoring a resurgence of bald eagles in the northeastern United States.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Emily Stephenson The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday it was investigating Chinese-made laminates used by Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc, after reports that the company's flooring products had too-high levels of formaldehyde.

Date:26-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Stella Dawson Clearing forests for palm oil plantations is a "technical" matter that should not get tied up with trade discussions, an Indonesian minister told a land and poverty conference.

Date:25-Mar-15Country: CHILEAuthor: Anthony Esposito With no end in sight to a drought that has blighted Chile for the last several years, the government will invest in desalinization plants and reservoirs to ensure access to potable water, President Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.